Fantasy Football Tier Rankings - Week 2

Here are the early Week 2 tiers. Most experts have not ranked yet, but you can use them to help figure out who to pick up and who to drop. By Tuesday morning, only 17 of 100 experts have reported rankings. Data updates regularly, so check back before setting your final lineup.

Introduction

In this fantasy football model, I take aggregated expert ranking data from Fantasypros.com and pass it into a statistical clustering algorithm called a Gaussian mixture model. The algorithm finds players who are ranked similarly and discovers natural tiers within the data. The results are a series of simple charts that can help you decide your fantasy football line up each week. Match ups, injuries, strength of offense and defense are all accounted for. For more intuition behind the model, you can read this introduction.